John Cassian and the reading of Egyptian monastic culture /

This book examines the method of meditative reading encouraged by John Cassian (c. 360-435) in his ascetic writings, the bulk of which are fictive dialogues that purportedly record the instruction he had received from Egyptial Christian monks. This instruction was at its core an interactive experien...

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Main Author: Driver, Steven D., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781136707971
1136707972
9781315023649
1315023644
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Series Editor Foreword; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. John Cassian; What Can Be Known; Intriguing Possibilities; 2. Stories and Histories of Early Egyptian Monasticism; The Story of Christian Monasticism; A Revision of the Story; Reading Evagrius Ponticus; 3. Western Perceptions of Egyptian Monasticism; The Lives of Antony and Paul; Jerome's Early Monastic Vision; Jerome's Influence; Apatheia and Inpeccantia; 4. Literary Structure and Monastic Praxis; Appropriating the Self in the Text; Reading the Institutes; Reading as Monastic Praxis.
  • 5. Implications for Praxis: A Reconsideration of the Solitary LifeFraming the Question; Anachoresis in the Institutes; Piamun and John on the Solitary Life; Anachoresis as Interiority; 6. Implications for Theoria: Reading, Interiority and the Transfiguration of the Self; Withdrawal and Interiority; Reading and Mystical Knowledge; Reading and the Interiorization of the Text; Reading and the Transfiguration of the Self; Reading and Egyptian Monastic Culture; Bibliography; Index.